CHINA.

New Zealander, Volume 7, Issue 541, 21 June 1851, Page 3

CHIN A.

Hon»kon£» papers to ibe 2Sih December contain little calling for particular comment. The British bug Good Succvs-> was compelled to put into the Chinese harbour ol Tie ho for water; litre she Uy under cover of the guvs of the Chinese forts, and amidst Chinese Government boats, jet she was attacked by eight or nine pinlicil boats, rtud completely plundered, n<» resistance being made by the crew, nor protection iieing ofleied by 'he Chinese authorities. The Macao government hend of the affair, and sent three Portuguese armed lorchas to protect the Good Success, and the steam.T Canton was despatched from Ilonglong when the bri» was removed from Tie- ho to Macao. The Register calls ou the authoiiiies to demand from the Chinese government compensation for the Kisses of the owner. Murderers of me Rev. Mit. Fast. — The piratical murderers of Mr, Faht, the Swedish missionary at Fuchati, have fortunately not tscaped unpunished. The acting vice consul at the port, Mr. Sinclair, brought the mutter to the not.oe of the Mandarins who acted with promptitude on the occasion, the principals being seized and executed, and the village of which they were natvea burnt. A letter from Amoyof the 24 1 h statfs that 28 of the prates had been beheaded, a nl that others weie upon their tiu\.—]lcghter, Dec. 28. Death or Commissioner Lin'. — The late Commissioner Lin, so wJ! known to foreigneis by his bold ciu<ade against the opium tr,ide wli'ls' on his way to the insurrectionary district of Kv\anj,si was very suddenly taken ill on tlie|lBth ultimo, and died on thufc day at Coaon-chow-fuo, in the Kwangtung province, in hiN 69<h year. Lin will long live in ihe noemory of his countrymen in connection will the part which he acted towirJs foreigner m 1539, and his seizute and destruction of opium, which induced England to enter upon a China War. liis open and well known hatred to foreigners arid innovations led the late emperor to raise him to the governorship of Kwnumiig province. He ii said to have possessed an active and determined mind. He was a rulei of uh<un his countrymen stood much in a^e, and was consequently picked out from among all others of the high government ofiiccis by the young emperor, and despatched to quell the disturbances which have for months pjst existed in Kwangsi. -mHO7igftong Register, Drc. 2S.